Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,995, Winthrop Frost, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Frost, Winthrop
H. 15,995
Chesley, Sarah
B.L.Wt. 8005-160-55-
(Former widow)
CONTENTS

Agent notified
Set to pro Paver Aug 22/53 Same July 19 1834
New Hampshire 3,689
Sarah Chesley, formerly widow of Winthrop Frost
who died on the year 1811 of Carroll Co. in the State of N. Hampshire who was a Pr. Drummer in the company commanded by Captain Gilman of the ————— commanded by ————— in the N. H. Militia time for 5 mos. 21 day - Pr. " 1 " 12 " Drummer
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 21 Dollars 89 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of March 1842 and sent to David Murray New Market, N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1842 251.73 Semi-annual allowance ending Dec. 43 10.94
$262.67
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book C, Vol. 1.
Clerk, Page 24.

No 5367
N. Hamp
3 1/2 3 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2
N.H. July 4. 1836.
Hm Suzanne Shaw H.R.

State of New Hampshire
Carroll On this eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty one before the Subscriber, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared Sarah Chapley, a resident of Eaton in said County, aged eighty three years and upwards, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain benefit of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress passed July 4. 1836 and March 3. 1837. That her first husband was Wentworth Frost late of Lee in the County of Grafton, and who was a Drummer and private in the Revolutionary War; She declares that, according to best of her knowledge and belief, that said Wentworth Frost first served as a drummer three months under Captain Smith Emerson on Seavey's Island in Portsmouth Harbor in the fall of 1775. also two months and twenty days at Winter Hill from the first of January 1776. under Captain John Lane. also three months from June 1777 under Captain Gilman of Wolfe's in Gen Stark's detachment and was at the Battle of Bennington. She further declares that she was married to the said Wentworth Frost on the tenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy four at Lee N.H. and lived in said Lee till the Spring of 1776 when they moved to Manchester where they lived when the said Wentworth enlisted under Captain Gilman; That her oldest son Nathan Frost was born at said Lee December 10. 1775. She further declares that the said Wentworth Frost died July 28. 1811, and that her last husband deceased Jonathan Chapley. died in July. 1824 to whom the

was married in December 1825. She further declares that she remains his widow Witness David Murray                      Sarah his Crosby John Crocker                      mark
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written Before me
John Crocker      Judge of said Court
I certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily in- firmity attend the court.
John Crocker      Judge as aforesaid

State of New Hampshire Concord ss
I Francis B Chase Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that John Grocher Resquin was on the eighteenth day of May A.D. 1841 - a judge of said Court. and that being well acquaint- ed with his signature I have no doubt that the within purporting to be his signature is genuine
Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 19 th day of May A.D. 1841
F. B. Chase Clerk

63,828. Not March 3/55
April 12/55
Sarah Chesley, widow of Winthrop Frost, Phil.
N. H. H. L. Pensioner. Ady 18 36.
Ad: 1600 A.C., Oct. 9/1855.
M rs B. H.
Buxton
Not to 800000
Vol. F, 130. >
John Peavey Tuftonboro' W. H.

CORD.
BIRTHS.
July 14 in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eight at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in Lee County of Strafford
Essie Sherman Frost was born August 3 in the year of our Lord One thousand Eighteen hundred and ten at 7 o'clock in the morning - in Lee County of Strafford
Nancy Frost was born July 28 in the year of our Lord One thousand Eighteen hundred and twelve in Lee County of Strafford
John Frost was born August 20 in the year of our Lord One thousand Eighteen hundred and thirteen at 1 o'clock in the morning in Lee County of Strafford
Elmina Frost was born November 24 day in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred Sixteen at 10 o'clock in the morning in Lee County of Strafford
Winthrop Frost was born January - 26 day in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and nineteen at 10 o'clock in the morning in Effingham County of New Hampshire
Samuel Frost and his mate the Fawns was born July 21 st 1820 in Effingham County of Strafford
George Tuttle Frost was born September the 16 th 1822 in Effingham County off Strafford State off New Hampshire

MARRIAGES.
Samuel T. Frost of Sally Raymond of Boston, v. John Lathrop June the 9 th in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seven
Samuel T. Frost was born in the year our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Twenty Eight in the year In Middleton County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire
Sally Raymond was born in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Eighty Seven In Boston State of Massachusetts

State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton ss. On this twenty ninth day of March A.D. 1885 - personally appeared before me John Peasey a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid Sarah Chesley aged Ninety nine years a resident of Madison in the aforesaid County and State who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Sarah Chesley who now draws a Pension at the rate of twenty one Dollars and Eighty nine cents per annum as the former widow of Winthrop Frost that she draws said Pension by virtue of the 3 d section of the law of the United States of the 4 th July 1836 - and which Pension certificate was issued on the nineteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty two that on account of her great age and the absence of her family record that being on file as she supposes and believes with her application for a Pension in the Pension office at Washington that she does not know of any public or private record of her marriage or the death of her aforesaid Husband, with the exception of what is on file in the Pension office that she has never received or applied for Bounty land before this date in any act of Congress whatever she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of the 3 d day of March 1885 - as the widow formerly of said Winthrop Frost and that she desires that her land warrant may be sent to John Peasey Esq of Tiptonville W.H. who is hereby authorized to apply for and receive the same and that she is still a widow. her Sarah L. Chesley
we Luke Nickerson and Mark Nickerson do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Chesley in our presence and that we know that she is the identical Sarah Chesley that has drawn a Pension as above stated for at least ten years or more and that they believe her to be of age above stated and that she is very feeble and infirm and need at this time and that neither of us have any interest in this claim.

be entitled under the act of the 3 d day of March 1883 - as the widow formerly of said Winthrop Frost and that she desires that her land warrant may be sent to John Peavey Esq of Tiptonville W.H. who is hereby authorized to apply for and receive the same and that she is still a widow. her
Sarah J Chesley
March
We Luke Nickerson and Mark Nickerson residents of Abades in State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Chesley in our presence and that we know that she is the identical Sarah Chesley that has drawn a Pension as above stated for at least ten years or more and that they we believe her to be of age above stated and that she is very feeble and infirm and need at this time and that neither of us have any intent interest in this claim
Luke Nickerson Mark Nickerson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim
John Peavey Notary Public

in reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Winthrop Frost a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  W. 15995
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Fall, 1775 3 mos. Drummer Smith Emerson - N.H.   Jan. 1776 2 mos. 20 days Pvt. John Lane - "   June, 1777 3 mos. " Jeremiah Gilman - "  
Battles engaged in, Bennington . Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lee, Strafford Co., N.H. Date of application for pension, May 18, 1841. Her claim was all'd. Residence at date of application, Eaton, Carroll Co., N.H. Age at date of application, 83 years
Remarks: Soldier mar. at Lee, N.H., Dec. 10, 1774, Sarah Little. Children: Nathaniel, born Dec. 10, 1775; Samuel J., b. March 22, 1778, mar. Sally Raymond; reference made to a third child, name not stated. Soldier died at Lee, N.H., July 28, 1811.  Very respectfully, Widow mar. in Dec. 1815, Jonathan Chesley.  H. Philbrick

Rev WIDOW, &c.
Jan. 16, 1908. History to Philip Walker
File No. 15995
Sarah Chesley widow of Winthrop Frost Pr. Rev War.
Act J. M. G. 36
Index: Vol. a , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

36/41 76/119
Exah Chesley Formerly widow of Winthrop Hast-
Suspended
See let to Hon T. Shaw June 7 th 1841 to David Murray Feb 28. '42
act July 4 th 1836
✓ 8.005
( 160 Ams

No. 63828
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 12, 1855.
Winthrop Frost
Warrant-8005-160-55
John Peavey Luftonboro N. H.

Important
Index

President MR. WILLIAM L. MARSH Vice-Presidents MR. LOUIS A. DENT HON. THOS. A. ANDERSON MR. FRANCIS H. PARSONS Recording Secretary MR. SIDNEY I. BESSELIEVRE Corresponding Secretary MR. JOHN E. FENWICK Treasurer MR. PHILIP F. LARNER Registrar MR. ALBERT D. SPANGLER Assistant Registrar MR. ZEBINA MOSES Historian PROF. SELDEN M. ELY Librarian MR. PAUL BROCKETT Chaplain REV. THOMAS S. CHILDS
Office of the Recording Secretary MR. SIDNEY I. BESSELIEVRE, 1419 G Street N.W.
Board of Management
Consisting of the Officers Ex-Officio , and the following Compatriots
MR. FRANCIS E. GRICE MR. H. P. R. HOLT DR. CHAS. W. NEEDHAM MR. FRED D. OWEN MR. EDGAR B. STOCKING MR. SIDNEY I. BESSELIEVRE COL. FRED C. BRYAN MR. WILLIAM V. COX MR. WALLACE D. McLEAN MR. JOHN SPEED SMITH COMDR. JOHN H. MOORE MR. WILLIAM B. THOMPSON GEN. THOS. M. VINCENT MR. GEO. C. MAYNARD MR. WILLIAM A. DECAINDRY
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 9, 1908
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:- Can you give me the Revolutionary record of Winthrop Frost, and if pensioned, a certificate of that fact. He is said to have been a drummer boy in Capt. Smith Emerson's company, New Hampshire troops, and reference is given me to Vol. XII of the Pension Office records. Also possibly in Stephen Clark's Company, of Epping, N.H.
Yours truly,
Philip H. W. Allen 226 Colorado Building.

Samuel J Frost of Eaton in the County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I am a Son of Winthrop Frost late of Lee in the County of Strafford and Sarah Chesley, formerly Sarah Frost, that I was born on the twenty second day of March 1778, as my parents informed me in early life, that my Father and mother had one Son named Nathaniel upwards of two years older than myself now deceased. That my Father the said Winthrop Frost died at Lee on the twenty eighth day of July 1811, and that my mother about four years afterwards was married to Jonathan Chesley who also died in July 1824 and that she now remains his widow. I further declare and say that my Father never kept any family record of marriages, births or deaths. I further declare and say that the annexed is part of my own family record originally made, and that the corner torn off, was so done by one of my children several years ago.
Samuel J Frost
State of New Hampshire
Eaton May 19. 1841
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Samuel J Frost, who, I hereby certify is entitled to full credit as a witness. Before me.
David Murray Notary Public

I Judith Dousborn of Effingham in County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire aged eighty one years and upwards, depose and say that I am a daughter of Capt George Tuttle late of Lee deceased, and a Sister to Sarah Chesley now residing in Eaton in this County. That the said Sarah Chesley was married to the said Winthrop Frost at my Father's house in said Lee in December Seventeen hundred and Seventy four, by the Rev Mr Hutchins an ordained minister at said Lee; That I was present at said Wedding and saw them married, and heard the minister declare them to be husband and wife: That I distinctly recollect that this marriage took place in December previous to the commencement of the Revolution. I further depose and say that Nathaniel Frost a son of the said Winthrop and Sarah was born in December 1775; that the said mother came home out of the service when this child was born and staid about ten days, and then returned to the Army; that in the Spring of 1776 the said Winthrop and Sarah removed to Meredith Vt where their second child was born, and before the third was born she came back to said Lee where the said Frost died; that in a few weeks after the birth of Nathaniel Frost the said Sarah came with her child to my Father's and remained there until her husband returned from the Army; Soon after which they moved to Meredith That I nursed the said Sarah when her first child was, and distinctly recollect that she was not eighteen years of age, nor was she quite seventeen when she was married.

I further desire and say that in the Summer of 1777 my Sister the said Sarah went to for me to go to Man- ton and stay with her a few months while her husband was gone to Bennington; that I accordingly did go, and remained there until some time in the fall of the same year when he returned and carried me back to Lee I further desire and say that Samuel T Frost the second child of the said Nathaniel & Sarah was born in March next after said Frost return from Bennington.
Witkop! Drievoudig - Ieder der der Dochteren mark
State of New Hampshire Effingham May 19. 1841 Subscribed and sworn to by the Saccarappa Dearborn, who I hereby certify is entitled to full credit as a witness. Before me David Hovey Notary Public

Is Willey Hill of Lee in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged eighty two years of age and say that I was a private under Capt Smith Emerson about three months at the Fort in Portsmouth Harbor in the Fall of 1775 and two months and twenty days under Captain John Leme at Winter Hill from Jan'y 1776. I further depose and say, that Mr. Nathaniel Frost late of this town at the time was a private at the Fort under Capt Smith Emerson the same time with myself and also under Captain John Leme at Winter Hill. Said Leme raised his company consisting of one hundred men at the request of General Sullivan. I further depose and say, that John Gile was Lieutenant, and John Miley was Ensign under said Leme. I further depose and say that the said Nathaniel Frost was married to Sarah Tuttle at said Lee previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary War.
Witness David Miley Owen L. Bennett
his Willey Hill mark
State of New Hampshire Lee April 19 1841
Subscribed and sworn to by the above Willey Hill, who, I hereby certify, is entitled to full credit as a witness.
Before me David Miley Clerk Public

Ebenezer Hill of Wakefield in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire aged eighty three years and upwards. Before disposition and say that I was a private under Captain Jeremy G. man, late of this town and who commanded a company of New Hampshire Militia under Gen Stark in the Summer of 1777, and was at the Battle of Bennington. That Mr. Ezekiel Frost then of Meredith and late of Lee and was also a member of said company, and was in said Battle. I further dispose and say that before the said company the said Frost moved his family from Lee to Meredith where he lived a few years and returned. I further dispose and say that I was well acquainted with said Frost before and after the Revolution. That the above was inserted before signing -
Witness
John Merrill David Murray
Ebenezer his Hill mark
State of New Hampshire
Wakefield May 21. 1841
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Ebenezer Hill, who I hereby certify is entitled to full credit as a witness. Before me
David Murray Notary Public

I Thomas B Hall of Lee, in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I am clerk of said Lee, that I have held said office twelve of the last fifteen years; that I have examined the records of said town from 1769 to 1800 and find no evidence of the marriage of Mr. Thos Frost to Sarah Tuttle. That but a very few marriages are found in said records between the years aforesaid. That the register of births offers no proof of the birth of a child of the said Mr. Frost and Sarah. I further do hereby certify that, the Church of which Mr. Hutchinson was Pastor has long since been disbanded, and no record of him or of the church can be found.
Thos B Hall, Town Clerk,
State of New Hampshire Lee May 21 1848
Subscribed and sworn to, Before me, David Murray Notary Public

I David Watson of Keene Market County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged eighty one years and upwards do here and say that I was well acquainted with the Wm. Frost late of Lee in the County of Nashua, and from my youth up to the time of his decease at said Lee. I further depose and say that said Wm. Frost was married to Sarah (Pitt) at said Lee previous to the commencement of the Revolution. That some time after their said marriage and previous to the year 1777 said Frost moved his family to Middleton in said County of Nashua; that I served as a private in Col. John Gage's Regiment Eighteen months previous to March 1777 and was discharged at Morristown N Jersey, and returned to Nashua. Immediately on my return I went with my Father Mr. Dunham, a town adjoining Middleton, to work on a house. That within ten days of the time, the said Wm. Frost and  some my self enlisted under a Captain Gilman of Wallasea for New Hampshire, went immediately to Bennington first to General Stark and then at the Battle of Bennington, and in taking about seven hundred Hessian prisoners. I further depose and say that we both served over one tenth of three months and were honorably dis- charged. Said Frost, afterward came back to Lee with his family where he lived and died  David Watson
State New Hampshire Keene March 12 1841 Subscribed and sworn to by the said David Watson, who I hereby certify is a man of truth. Before me (David Murray Notary Public)

New Bedford Feb 21 1842
Sir,
In May 1841 Mrs Sarah Cheeley (whose first husband was Winthrop Gross) presented a claim for a pension under the Act of July 4 1836 and the Act of March 3 1837 for services rendered by the said Winthrop Gross in the War of the Revolution. In her Declaration, she asserted that the said Gross performed a tour of service in the Fall of 1775 under Capt Smith Emerson in Portsmouth Harbor, and immediately afterwards one under Capt John Larn of Winton Hill, also one under Capt Jeremy Gilman in 1777.
For further proof in support of the claim for the service under Capt Emerson, a roll of said Emerson's company filed in support of the claim of the widow of Timothy Corson, presented by Richard Russell Esq of Rochester N.Y. may be referred to
In support of her claim for services under Capt John Larn, she relies on the affidavit of Willey Hill, and the evidence filed with the Declaration of Hannah Durgin wife of Josiah Durgin and who was allowed 2 mo 20 days the term stated by Sarah Willey Hill, there being no roll of said company to be found. There is, also evidence that Capt Larn commanded a company filed with the claim of the widow of John, or Joseph Cheeley. Said Cheeley late of Epping and rec'd a pension partly for service in the same company.
Additional proof for service under Capt Gilman may be found on the accompanying roll.
Please come to the Department
I am, very respectfully
your ob. Servt
David Murray
Jerris Edwards cler of Pensions Washington

Pension Office Feb. 28. 1842.
Sir,
Your letter of the 21 st instant has been received. The roll you mention, of Capt. Smith Emerson's Company in the Autumn of 1775, is not upon our files.
In the case of Mrs. Emerson, a roll of Capt. Jno. Waldo was filed in proof of her husband's service at that time. It is believed that there is a roll of Emerson's company in the Office of the Secretary of State at Concord.
The service at and about Portsmouth in the fall of 1775, continued about 6 weeks.
From the present proof Mrs. Sarah Chesley may be allowed 2 months and 20 days under Capt. Lane and 2 months and 11 days under Capt. Gilman.
I am, very respectfully Your Obed. Serv. J. L. Edwards
David Murray Esq. New Market N.H.

Sir
New Bedford Feb 12 1842
Enclosed is a transcript of Capt Emerson's roll at Scituate Island No 5 1775 by which it appears that Winthrop Frost was a Drummer in said Company.
I also return your letter to me on the subject of Mrs Hannah Duguis's claim, dated Jan 7 1839, by which it appears that the term of service was then settled to be two months, and a reference to her papers will show that she was allowed that time.
Please communicate to the Subordinate I am, very respectfully yours &c David Murray
  Emerson  in a    Loren  2 40    Gilmer  2 20     2 11     James  
J L Edwards Esq Commissioning Pensions Washington D C

State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton ss. on this twenty seventh day of May. 1853 personally appeared before me John Peavey a Notary Public in and for the state aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths, Sarah Chesley, a resident of Madison in the aforesaid County and State aged ninety seven years formerly widow of Wentworth Frost who was a Private and Ensign in the Revolution and that she now receives a Pension at the rate of twenty one dollars and eighty nine cents per annum under the act of 4 th of July 1836. That she asks for any arrears or increase of Pension that may be due under any of the acts of Congress applicable to her case. Believing as she does that she does not receive the full amount that she is by law justly entitled to receive.
Witness John Peavey Samuel T. Frost
her Sarah K. Chesley Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written that she is the individual she she represents herself to be.
John Peavey Notary Public

Suffolkborough June 3 rd 1853 Hon L P Waldo
Dear Sir
I herewith send you the application of the widow of Wentworth Frost a Revolutionary soldier for an increase of Pension I do not know what evidence is now on file relative to her claim in the Pension office but from her statement which she declares very deliberately and correctly to all appearance she is entitled to a much larger sum annually. Than she now receives I hope you will examine the evidence now on file in her case be able under the laws of Congress to grant her an increase of Pension as she is now 97 years old and her only son whom she lives with is a cripple for life wholly unable to perform labor but the old lady is smart and is now knitting stockings to be presented to the world's fair in New York
Very Respectfully your obt servt
John Peavey
P S Pleas send the answer to said application to me J Peavey

Tuftonborough Augt 18 th 1853. Hon L. P. Waldo.
Dear Sir
I write you relative to the application of the Widow Sarah Chesley for an increase of Pension which application together with her Pension certificate was sent by me to your office on the 4 th of June last it is important that the certificate should be forwarded to me in season for her to draw her money on the 4 th of Sept next as she is dependant on the same for support.
Very Respectfully your Obed Servt.
John Peasey

State of New Hampshire.
County of Carroll ss. on this twenty eighth day of December A D 1853. personally appeared before me Thomas Rust a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the State and County aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths Ammi Kenett a resident of Madison in the aforesaid State and County aforesaid aged thirty five years and Jonathan Harmon a resident of said Madison aged fifty three years who both being first duly sworn according to law declare that they are well acquainted with the widow Sarah Chesley now residing in the aforesaid town of Madison and that they will know that she has for several years last past drawn a small pension as the widow of Wenthop Frost who was represented to have served in the war of the Revolution and further that she is reputed to be of the age which she declares in her declaration ninety eight years and from a long personal acquaintance with the aforesaid widow they believe her declaration to be strictly true as subscribed and sworn to on the twenty seventh instant before Judge Rust.
Ammi Kenett Jonathan Harmon

Canoll ss. Dec 28 1853
The within affidavit sworn to and subscribed
Before me Thomas Rust Judge C.C. Pleas
I further certify that the affiants are intelligent, credible and disinterested witnesses. Thomas Rust

with Sarah Shirley. Declaration

State of New Hampshire
Carroll County ss - on this twenty seventh day of December A D 1853 personally appeared before me Thomas Rust a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the aforesaid State & County duly authorized to administer oaths Sarah Chesley a resident of Madison (formerly known as the Town of Eaton) in the aforesaid State and County aged ninety eight years who first being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Jonathan Chesley late of Barnstead deceased that previous to her Marriage to the said Jonathan Chesley she was the widow of Wentworth Frost who resided in the Town of Lee in the County of Strafford and State aforesaid who was a private and drummer in the War of the Revolution and that she is the identical Sarah Chesley who has drawn a Pension on account of the services of said Wentworth Frost in said Revolutionary war - at the rate of twenty one dollars and eighty eight cents as she believes she does not know that she is exactly correct as to the precise sum as she delivered her Pension Certificate to John Peavey Esq. whom she employed as her agent some time during the

last summer to prosecute her claim for an increase of Pension and that she believes said Pension certificate to be now on file in the Pension office at Washington together with the application subscribed and sworn to before said John Peavey that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining an increase of Pension under the act of Congress the 2 day of February 1848 and to obtain the benefit of all acts of Congress heretofore passed applicable to her case and further that she is still a widow
Witness -
Samuel Frost
Thomas Rust
Sarah her M ark Chesley
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above named
Before me
Thomas Rust Judge of the C. C. Pleas.
I further certify, that from bodily infirmity the declarant is unable to attend Court, and I further believe the above declaration to be strictly true.
Thomas Rust Judge of the C. C. Pleas.
And further that I have no personal interest in her claim. Thomas Rust

State of New-Hampshire.
CARROLL, SS.
I, Francis R. Chase, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County, hereby certify that Thomas Russell Esq., before whom the annexed Declaration was made, and who has thereunto
Seal of said Court subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereunto is genuine.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 10th day of January 1854
Francis R. Chase Clerk.

Suffolk, Mass. Jan 13 1854 Hon. L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir
I herewith send
you the application of the Widow Sarah Chesley for an increase of Pension her Pension certificate is now on file in your office together with a former application sworn to before me which was suspended in order that the same be sworn to before a judge of the Court I hope you will give this application your early attention and forward me a new certificate in season for her to draw on the 1 st of March as she did not draw in Sept for the reason that her certificate was at Washington
Very Respectfully your Obedt Servt
John Peasey

Sarah Chester farm mid. of Mullerup Frost, who d. '11 in '74 (hasley d. '24) '75 $3 m. Drummond. — 1. 12 Roll '76 2.20 Mr. Luce — 2 20 '77 +3 — Gilman — 2 11 8.20 6.13
+ 2m 11 days — See Roll
on file — 1777
* On file 1775.
3 — 2 20 2 11  8, 01  5 1 1 12  6 13

Sarah Chesley former widow of Winthrop Frost NH Ad July 4 1836 Married 1774 died 1811.
Allow 1 mo 12 days on Dunsmore @ 5 mo 1 d private. leaf Gilman 6 NH million $21.89 per ann
Sarah Munay Esq Newmarket NH